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Georgia Munro-Cook

Georgia Munro-Cook

Australian basketball player

Sep 28, 2026

3:29
And I don't know if that's... because they're newer, because they're smaller, because they're female focused or if it's some combination of those things.
3:39
Yeah, so I would say historically women's sport has generally been kind of seen as queer and lesbian, and they spent a really long time trying to fight against that.
3:50
So you can see prior to the WNBA or around the time it was launched, a lot of the women's college teams were kind of using it as a recruiting tool, being like, that other college, it's full of lesbians.
4:03
You should come to us, basically.
4:04
Yeah.
4:05
So when the WNBA was launched, it was actually like really important to them to not be seen as queer.
4:10
So they did a lot of things to try and manage that, whether that would be like dressing their players in very feminine outfits, really promoting.

21 MINS LATER

25:37
which I wasn't expecting.

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